Economical lubricant-distributer for mechanical installation



` E. J. A. SCHULTZ. ECONOMICAL L UBRICANT DIS'TRI'BUTER FOR MECHAMCM. SHSTALLAHQNS.

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Patented May 24, 1921.

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V1EMILE "JOSEPH AUGUSTIN scHUL'rz, on PARTS, FRANCE.

kEGONOlMICAL LUBRICANT-DISTRIBUTER FOR ll/IECHANICAL INSTALLATION To aZZ whom t may cof/wem:

Be it known that I, EMT'LE JOSEPH AU- GUsTiN SoI-IULTz, a citizen of the Republic of France, and resident of Paris, France, have inventedV a certain new and `useful Improvement in Economical Lubricant.,- Distributersfor Mechanical Installations, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention has for its object a lubricant distributer adapted to` supply to different members ofa mechanical installation, whose parts move in dependence one of another, exactly essential quantities ofoil, at each operation, without recourse to throttling of distributing ducts leading to the members, which are always exposed to choking or obstructions and have consequently an uncertain function.

This result is obtained by allowing the lubricant to flow freely and by effecting the division of the liquid streams by means of knives surmounting channels inclined in opposite vdirections,.thereby causing the separation of each stream into two parts, this system of division being applied at the outlet of the oil pump and on the streams obtained successively until there are a sullicient number of stream parts. The apparatus, moreover, permits of an automatic regulation of the discharge.

The invention will beV clearly understood with the aid of the drawing accompanying the present description which drawing is given by way of example and in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of the apparatus, and

Fig. 2 is a plan view.

Oil arrives from the pump by the tubeJ on the pivoting pan L, balanced by a counterweight P and adapted to oscillate between two stops t t. It remains horizontal while the oil is flowing from tube J at rest against stop t. In this horizontal zposition, the lubricant spreads itself over the pan and V4flows in thin streams through the openings Z Z arranged at the sides. In this way, it is seen that the flow of liquid is interrupted immediately the motor stops, because the pump being motionless no more oil comes.

The openings Z have a V shape form; they cannot become choked or obstructed. An end rectangular outlet y, whose outlet end is slightly raised, with respect to the outlet ends ofthe other outlets, allows excess liquid Specification of Letters Patent.` `Application led October 422, 1918.

Patented May 24, 1,921. `semi No. 959,243.

to p ass'into. the receptacle R which communicates with the pump feed reservoir.

A second regulating plate T, situated below the first, can` be set obliquely by means of the controlling screw V so as to collect, as circumstances may require, or according to the viscosity of the liquid or any other purpose, one or more streams kflowing from the upper platform L. The other streams fall into .the receptacle R, which, as previously stated, communicates with the pump.

It is of the quantity of liquid. collected on platform T that a division is made for distribution to they `dierent members. The iirs't division into two parts is made on the liquid which iiows freely by duct c on to a projecting edges situated in the middle of a trough-S. The flow through the succeeding troughs AS', S2, S3, arranged horizontally and at a little distance one from the other, resuits` in theA division of the said two first parts intorespectivelye, 8 andl parts.

A similar` arrangement is symmetrically disposed on the other side of the distributer and allows a corresponding number of subdivided parts to be produced. A lubricant of another kind can be distributed by such a second series of troughs.

It will be seen that the flow of the lubricant brought to this state of retarded dropping by a single flow in free air, cannot be interrupted as it would be by very small openings, slits or cracks, provided to limit and restrict the flow.

There will not be any interruption between the distributer and the lubricator feed inlets if care be taken to use connecting ducts relatively large for the quantities to be distributed. Such ducts can be constituted by metallic tubes of several millimeters bore.

The quantity of oil can be varied for the different degrees of frictions in one and the same machine. The quantity of liquid can be effected by any suitable division and trough where this quantity is sufficiently known.

It is evident that the arrangements described above are in no way limited and can, while remaining within the scope of the invention, be modified, both as regards regulation details and the disposition and mounting of various parts, as ma;T be necessary for particular cases.

Having thus described the nature of the said invention and the best'means I know' of carrying the same into practical eErect, I claim l 1. In an oil distributing apparatus', the combination with an oil delivery member, of means comprising a tiltable pan for receiving oil from said member and having fecting a division of theoil stream flowingVV from said outlet. Y

3. In an oil distributing 'Vapparatus, ac-l cording to' claim l characterized by an adjustable collecting pan` adapted to be placed in such position as to 'receive' the oil iowing from any number of said delivery openings.

4;'In an oil distributing apparatus, `according to claim 1 characterizedby an oil receiving receptacle to receive oilV from the oil delivery members y and having an out let, meanscomprising a knife edge for effect.

ing a division of the oil stream flowing from said outlet into two parts, receptacles'fha'ving outlets/for collecting each of said streams and means comprising a knifel edge foretecting a division ofthe oilstreams flowing from the outlets of the last-named receptacles. v

5. In an oil distributingrapparatus, the

.combination of a pivoted `counter-weighted pan for receiving oil and 'having openings, `a movable collectingpanrfor,receiving the oilliowing from the openings of the pivoted pan and having an outlet duct an edged member to separate the oil flowing `from ttheY duct.

6. In an apparatus for distributing oil, the combination of a pivoted counter-'weighted pan, adapted'to receive oil froman oil delivery member rhaving on one sideA of 'its pivotal point'a plurality of openings VJfrom which'the oil passes toward the elementsto be lubricated and onthe other side ofthe pivotalpoint an opening,'theoutlet end of which is raised above theoutlet ends ofthe other openings, Vthe excess oilV yin the pan j flowing through said opening;

7 In -an oily distributing apparatus, the" combination with a delivery member, ofVV means'comprising an oil tiltable pan toreceive oil from jthe voil delivery :openings having delivery 'openings Vfor Varresting the iow of oil from its openingsV contemporaneously with the cessation Vof oil ow from said'member into a pan'and meansto;

limit the movement ofthetiltablepan.

In witness'whereof'lhave hereunto 4'signed my name.

EMILE JQSEPH "AUGUSTIN .SCHUL'TL 

